Arizona silver belt., 1887-06-25
THE EVIL NFLrENCE et MEDICINE MEN.

.-SoesAhsayers or medicine men, who claim the power of prophetic vision, are the disturbing element of the Apa- chss, and just now are availinR them selves of the opportunity of biasing the minds of the San Carlos agency Indians, by interpreting the earth quake ef Kay Sd as an omen tending to 'fhe destruction of the whites and establishment of the power of the Fndians. There are two-onee Yaqui, the other a Aojave-holdlng sway, with tom-toms, rattles, singing and dancing at Coyote Spring, on the western edge of the reservation. They are taking advantage of the super Stitious character of their hearers who believe in the infalibility of their revelations breed discontentment.
 A notable instance of the evil teach ings of the medicine man is rsmem- bered in the case of Nock-a-de-k klen- ny, who, ln 1881, proposed for gifts of horses, blankets, &es.to bring to-ifs some chiefs who had died months pre- vious, and after thus enriching him. self, and the time fixed for the resur- rsetiOn having passed, his victims de- manded the restoration of their gifts, and Tn order to retain the property, he further duped them by pretending that the spirits of the defunct war l'i0fs could not be restored te life un- til the whites had left the country, and he fixed the date of their leaving at the time of the corn harvest.
 On our way from Tucson to Globe, we stopped over night at the sub agency and while there some Indian runners, who had been sent from Clb- lieu, where the miracle was to be per formed, to notify the Indians what was about to occur, arrived. Issue Clerk, Hoag, informed us that trouble was brewing, and that the wizard or medicine man had advised the killing Of the whites, in order that the per- formance of the miracle might prove a success, but that the perfection of the charm required the preservation of the life of Hoag. On coming to the Agency the following morning, we re- ported to Agent Tiffany what we had heard, and he at once telegraphed to \ Gen. Wilcox at Prescott, that Nock-a- 'de-klsnny must be arrested. Gen. Wilcox in turn ordered Col. Carr to arrest the man. To carry out the or der of arrest, it became necessary to go to the Indian encampment. Six officers, seventy-nine soldiers and twenty-three Indian scouts constituted tie command
 Nock-a-de-klenny surrendered, pro- Eessing no desire to escape, but as the troops were making camp for the night, on their return to the post, the scouts and other Indians opened fire; a sharp fight ensued, the Indians were rspulsed, the medicine man wounded and finally killed, among a pile of pack-saddles, whithsr he had crawled for protection. Twas there that Cap tain Hentig and eight of his command were killed. That would have ended fhe Indian trouble, at least at that time, had it not been for the impolitic action of Gen. o. B. Wilcox in attempt ing to arrest the Coyotero chiefs George and Bonito, against the adv1ce of the Agent, who feared that sending troops to the sub-agency, where George, Bo- nito and the Chirioahuas were, would so alarm the latter Gearing arrest for offences committed in Mexico) that they would leave the reservation. The result was as predicted and during the night Of September Both, seventy-four Chiricahuas, including women and children, fed.
 We think it the part of prudence that these lneantations of medicine men should be StOpped-if possible by pacific measures, but If necessary, to use force, and arrest and punish these breeders of discord, and the sooner the better it will be fer the peace of